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Fall 2019

Kazanbas, Esra

attempts to control the natality rate of the population. In this thesis, I analyzed how the Turkish government uses biopolitical apparatuses to discipline women’s bodies under two main categories. The reproduction economies of the government, as well as the surveillance and control of gender and sexuality

2020-04-07

Catena, Francesca

In our current society, women are continually bombarded with inequalities, oppression, and hardships based solely on their gender. In school, girls are also afflicted with sexism which negatively affects their educational opportunities. As an intersectional feminist and teacher, I have great

concerns that our current education system is reproducing gender inequality as opposed to preparing our girls for a future in which they are regarded as equal members in the workplace, in the home, and in society at large. I believe negative gender relations are affecting the educational experiences of

said marginalization differently. I propose to attend to the foil of gender inequality in education by utilizing feminist pedagogy and creating feminist teachers in order to introduce topics of gender oppression to students and bring forth societal change. As instructing new ideas can be daunting for

Fall 2021

Young, Tayler A

This study explores the relationship between online gender-based violence and symbolic annihilation. I ask the following questions: How extensively are Canadian cabinet ministers Catherine McKenna and Chrystia Freeland subjected to online gender-based violence on Twitter? What forms of online

gender-based violence do the two women experience? And how does online gender-based violence on Twitter function as a form of symbolic annihilation? To answer these questions, I conducted a content and discourse analysis of the top 200 liked tweets sent to the two women in the thirteen days immediately

capabilities, appearances, and agency. This research makes visible the far-reaching impact of online gender-based violence faced by prominent women, which is a growing problem around the world. It also offers a new conceptual approach through the lens of symbolic annihilation to construct a more holistic

Spring 2020

Conlon, Olivia C.R.

embedded in a social context. Objective: The primary objective was to examine gender differences in SC ability in children with ASD using narrative analysis. The secondary objective was to determine if the gender differences found in participants’ with ASD would also be found in matched typically

as adding descriptive words or phrases, and sources of confusion for a listener, such as examples of incoherence. To examine if gender differences were present when the participants with ASD were 8-years-old, a series of independent samples t-tests was run with gender as the independent variable (IV

) and the subtest/index scores (ERRNI, DTA) as the dependent variables (DVs). The second study’s aim was to determine the stability and pattern of the gender differences over time. The same participants were re-examined two years later at age 10, using the same measures, and their performance compared

Fall 2016

Bear, Tracy L

This dissertation explores how Indigenous articulations of sensuality, sexuality and gender form erotic expressions and act as decolonizing mechanisms. I address the question, “If this is my body, where are my stories?” by arguing for the recovery and what I call the practice of an Indigenous

eroticanalysis as a reclamation of sovereignty over our Indigenous bodies. The condemnatory language of historical settler accounts suggests that the criminalization of Indigenous sexualities and genders began at first contact. Any freedoms or diversities of Indigenous sexuality and gender were silenced with

upon the acceptance of patriarchal social structures, including the male/female gender binary structure. I examine the Indigenous erotic as a rewriting of Indigenous bodies in which sexuality, gender, and desire are a source of power and knowledge. Engaging in an Indigenous research method, a

Spring 2019

Hardy, Teresa

Background: Voice and communication modification training is a critical aspect of the gender affirmation process for many transgender people. Incongruence between communication characteristics and gender positioning can be a cause of gender dysphoria and lead to misattribution or being outed as a

transgender person, which can have significant negative social consequences (e.g., discrimination, physical harm). Consequently, identifying the characteristics of communication that contribute most to conveying one’s gender and masculinity-femininity is important for informing voice and communication

modification training practices. Objective: The two main objectives of my doctoral research were to 1) Identify a set of communication-based predictors (i.e., acoustic and nonverbal communication measures) of subjective ratings related to gender attribution; and 2) Explore relationships between communication

Spring 2024

Rajan, Nirupama

Immigrant women from ethnocultural communities often have differing definitions and experiences of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Domestic Violence (DV), and these processes are heavily influenced by language, culture and political contexts. However, the dominant conceptions of partner or...

Fall 2019

Gorsak, Paige

This thesis explores the affective and political currents of campus rape culture. Paying particular attention to neoliberalism’s transformation of Canadian higher education in recent decades, the author describes a “marketized” campus environment in which school reputation is frequently...

Fall 2021

Pearson, Diana Heather

What is unique about contemporary online public shaming practices is the potential scope and reach facilitated by social media, where call-outs can go viral and a collective response can be provoked by reaching a massive audience in a short amount of time. Call-outs can at once be ephemeral (they...

Fall 2019

Leksikov, Roman

This study examines homophobic and transphobic violence in contemporary Ukraine: victims’ experiences and patterns of policing and prosecuting by the law enforcement and judicial systems. A range of research methods - primarily in-depth semi-formal interviews and document analysis - were employed...